I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student at Princeton University, advised by Karthik Narasimhan. Previously, I graduated from Yao Class at Tsinghua University.
In my work, I build language agents to interact with the world, e.g. play text games (CALM), shop online (WebShop), answer questions and verify facts with a Wikipedia API (ReAct).
In my life, I like reading, basketball, pool, travel, and rap.
To contact me, click the paper plane, which is a language grounding problem.
Some Recent Papers
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ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
Shunyu Yao, Jeffrey Zhao, Dian Yu, Nan Du, Izhak Shafran, Karthik Narasimhan, Yuan Cao
ICLR 2023 (top 5%)
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WebShop: Towards Scalable Real-World Web Interaction with Grounded Language Agents
Shunyu Yao*, Howard Chen*, John Yang, Karthik Narasimhan
NeurIPS 2022
paper | code | project | demo
- Linking Emergent and Natural Languages via Corpus Transfer
Shunyu Yao, Mo Yu, Yang Zhang, Karthik Narasimhan, Joshua Tenenbaum, Chuang Gan
ICLR 2022 (Spotlight)
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Self-Attention Networks Can Process Bounded Hierarchical Languages
Shunyu Yao, Binghui Peng, Christos Papadimitriou, Karthik Narasimhan
ACL 2021
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Reading and Acting while Blindfolded: The Need for Semantics in Text Game Agents
Shunyu Yao, Karthik Narasimhan, Matthew Hausknecht
NAACL 2021
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Keep CALM and Explore: Language Models for Action Generation in Text-based Games
Shunyu Yao, Rohan Rao, Matthew Hausknecht, Karthik Narasimhan
EMNLP 2020
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Some Recent Readings
- Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul (Charles King)
- Istanbul—Hatıralar ve Şehir (Orhan Pamuk)
- Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot (Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard)
- The Linguistics Wars (Randy Allen Harris)
- Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Matthew Perry)
- What Babies Know (Elizabeth Spelke)
(last updated: Nov 2022)